PART ONE
The Second Psychedelic Revolution

1 The End of Acid?

2 Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin: The Godfather of Psychedelics

3 Terence McKenna: The Rise of the Plant Shaman

4 Alex Grey: The Mystic-Artist

5 A Short Psychedelic History of the World

6 A New Earth? The Dawn of the Visionary Age

PART TWO
What Can Entheogens Teach Us?
Psychedelic Culture in the Twenty-first Century

7 Where Is God in the Entheogenic Movement?

8 5-MeO-DMT: Visions of a Quantum God

9 The Future of Psychedelics

10 Psychedelics and Extreme Sports

11 What Can Entheogens Teach Us? Introducing the Oroc Entheogen Scale

12 Living in Dangerous Times

PART THREE
Dreaming of the Light
A Brief History of Visionary Art and Culture Introduction: What is Visionary Art?

13 Primitive and Ancient Visionary Art

14 Visionary Art in Medieval Christianity and the Renaissance

15 The Genesis of Visionary Art: William Blake and the Romantics

16 Studies in Light: Impressionism, Van Gogh, and the Birth of Modern Art

17 Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, and the Roots of Modern Psychedelic Culture

18 Post–World War II: Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

19 Psychiatry’s Darling: The (Brief) Science of Psychedelics and Creativity

20 The First Psychedelic Revolution: Art in the 1960s and 1970s

21 Modern Art in the 1960s: Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol

22 The Architects of Contemporary Visionary Art: Robert Venosa and Alex Grey

23 The Collectors: Mark McCloud and Jacaeber Kastor

24 New Psychedelic Tribes: BOOM! and Burning Man

25 Performance Art and Psychedelic Culture

26 The Birth of Transformational Festivals and Visionary Culture

27 The InterDimensional Art Show and the Tribe 13 Collective

28 The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

29 New Perspectives: MOKSHA, Alchemeyez, and The Temple of Visions

30 A FractalNation

31 Beyond 2012: Creating the Visionary Age

32 Akshardham: The Visionary Wonder of the World

33 Dreaming of the Light: The Promise of Visionary Art and Culture

34 The Furtherrr Collective and Other Important Contemporary Visionary Artists

PART FOUR
Accidental Ingestions, Amazonian Overdoses, and Other Reports from the Front Lines

35 A Pilgrimage to the Dance Temple: My Journey to BOOM!

36 An Accidental Visionary Experience

37 The Psy-Fi Chronicles: A Harsh Encounter with Rapé

38 A Death on the Playa Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

The New Psychedelic Revolution

The Genesis of the Visionary Age